Repairs
My neighbor I don’t
Know him, except he
Grins and hellos us
On our way to school.
My neighbor he parks
Beater cars in the
Road, rims resting
On blacktop.
My neighbor wears
Dark hoodies, and has scruff
On … Read the rest “Repairs”
Writer. Demand Poet.
My neighbor I don’t
Know him, except he
Grins and hellos us
On our way to school.
My neighbor he parks
Beater cars in the
Road, rims resting
On blacktop.
My neighbor wears
Dark hoodies, and has scruff
On … Read the rest “Repairs”
Nature is a cliche.
Out the window there’s
Another shrub, another
Tree, some oblivious dog– all very busy
Throwing around shadows
Because that’s the deal they
Made with Sun.
A trade of life
For livelong day
Reminders —
Real or… Read the rest “Reminders”
We’re back.
We never left.
Songs silenced.
Windows stripped.
One last dead needle
Plucked from a sock.
We’re back,
Wandering
The Big Room, now
Mostly empty. Two
Chairs, one piano
A box of crayons.
We return to
A holy plain… Read the rest “Big Room”
We have a
Pile of kids. So until the hour
Comes when they just pass out, we are always
Buzzing with sound
With pinging desires with
Stuffed animal
Landslides. Yet now and then
Comes a certain
Stillness which chimes–
As … Read the rest “A Certain Stillness”
—
On Tuesdays
I visit you and
We kill the hour and
We eat the time and it’s
Sure that by some standard
We’ve made “Progress.”
On Tuesdays I visit you and I
Sit in that same hard blue… Read the rest “Water Weekly”